Far-right agitators came for a hotel housing 130 asylum seekers smashing windows, marauding through corridors and shouting obscenities at people who had fled their homelands for the sanctuary of Britain. It was just one moment during six days of disorder in the country this month. Those watching in horror have asked: Why are South Asians still consistently underrepresented and misrepresented onscreen, and did that help create the conditions for chaos? “This is the culmination of years of dehumanizing brown people and the normalization of racist language and behaviors,” one filmmaker said. Deadline’s Jake Kanter reports.